The first volume of the classic adventures and misadventures involving the young vet, James Herriot, in the Yorkshire Dales from 1937 onwards.

In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. In the grand tradition of Stein and Hemingway, Gopnik planned to walk the paths of the Tuilleries, to lead the fabled life of an American in Paris. This is a memoir of his five years as an American family man in Paris.

Jill Ker Conway grew up in New South Wales in the 1940s and '50s. This is her account of an Australian childhood in the outback, and subsequently in Sydney, encompassing family tragedy, a devastating struggle with the desert environment, and an evocation of the Australian landscape.

A timeless classic that should be on every book-lover's 'must read' list.

A story of the author's early years at school and with his family. It features Quentin Blake cover and a section of facts about the author.

Shares some of the author's first recipes so readers can make the Dry-Fried Shrimp she first tasted in China, or the Dacquoise served at the end of a magical visit to a Paris bistro. This title also shares the intimacies of her personal life and makes readers feel that they are enjoying a cosy dining-table conversation with a friend.

Written by a mountaineer who in 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, drifted cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. It tells how moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. It tells the story of that promise and its outcome.

An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia.

The first volume in a series of memoirs by an influential musician and songwriter.

The day Koren turned fourteen she tasted alcohol for the first time. At fifteen she was piecing together forgotten fragments of drink, men and misplaced clothes. This is the story of a young woman coming of age within a society that finds it easier to turn a blind eye to binge-drinking than address the problem head on.

A 'retired career anorexic' examines herself and her, and our, culture in a masterpiece of confessional literature.

In December 1991, Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26, fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book started as a letter to Paula written during the hours spent at her bedside, and became a personal memoir and a testament to the ties that bind families -- a brave, enlightening, inspiring true story.

Bill Buford worked his way up to being a 'line cook' and then left New York to apprentice himself under the very teachers who had taught his teacher: preparing game with Marco Pierre White, making pasta in a hillside trattoria, and finally, in a town in Northern Italy, becoming an Italian butcher. This is a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure.

A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion.

An unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution was blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. This is a story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the political events in China and Hong Kong.

One of the modern classics of Irish publishing, Nuala O'Faolain's evocative memoir remains fresh and vivid even for today's reader. This edition focuses exclusively on the autobiographical material.

New edition.

Legendary comedian and actor Steve Martin's memoir of his early years in showbusiness

A memoir of the author's time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris. It documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in the vile 'Hotel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts.

A fascinating and touching memoir from real-life Rain Man, Daniel Tammet, who has the extremely rare condition Savant Syndrome